It was a mixture of stuff but the biggest offender was a piece of string that had gotten coiled up and around in his intestine. Pretty ****ing crazy to think about how much damage a piece of string can cause, to the extent where it had him like hours from death.

Doctor called and said he's doing really well this morning, so I'm really hopeful that we'll have him home this weekend and back to his happy self soon

Wow man thats rough. Good to hear he's on the mend.

You must be so relieved that your puppy survived this horrible situation, YD. So glad things have turned around for the better for him, and for you! Hopefully he will be back home soon and you'll have good reason to spoil him. :)

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Looking forward to having my son visit from school this weekend. He's had some trouble adjusting so far (he's very shy and a bit homesick). We're going to pay tennis together, as he's taken up tennis at school. I had hoped we could play outdoors but we're having quite a heatwave here, so we'll be playing indoors on clay courts, which should be interesting. My favorite surface and I haven't played on clay in many years.

It's always a treat when you've been a part for a while and then get together. It makes a person feel whole again. Warms my heart to hear, ribs.

Thank you, P! We are like two peas in a pod when we're together, and I always say to my son that even if I weren't his mother, I'd love to have him as a friend. :)

Sounds like you raised a great kid, but yeah of course you did. I mean, come on. It's ribbons. :)

My mini-me and me are the same way. 2 pea's in a pod. I love having her around all the time again. This morning was a fun one, since it's rare that she's up the same time I am before work. We have different work schedules so the times we get to spend together are always precious.

Thank you so much - you've got me blushing now for real.

And your mini-me is no doubt a lovely person, as her Dad is. Speaking of warming the heart, I feel exactly the same way thinking of you sharing a home now. Glad you had an a nice morning together - and may there be many more happy times in the future for both of you! :)

Ty :)

It's gonna be a great weekend.

Typical vacation day here. Woke up with the kids and made breakfast for the family. Then we packed a picnic and took a car trip to a cove where there's some great crab pickings for the kids. We swung by a strawberry farm on the way and picked up some fresh strawberries. When we got to the cove, I saw japanese wireweed had established there and it's an invasive species, so I spent a good half an hour above and below water pulling up wireweeds and throwing them ashore.. which is something I do every year here and there.

Then I got the bright idea that the municipality should put up some posters informing people about it (so others can chip in), so contacted a couple of people I know in the environmental department about it. Then proceeded to catch crabs for the kids, drink coffee and eat ice cream. We took a little walk to look at the sea before we headed back home.

On the way back, the roads are fairly dangerous, really curvy mountain roads above the sea with no sidewalks. A dad was out in the middle of this stretch with two small kids teaching them to ride bikes and cars in both directions had to stop/slow down and it looked crazy dangerous. We drove from there, but were kinda worried about it and considered going back to escort them or something. It would suck to read about an accident in the papers tomorrow and feeling like we should've done something, so we ended up calling the police, not because it's illegal, but just to ask them to check up on it and perhaps offer some help. They seemed appreciative of the call. Now I'm at home watching the kids play in the garden while she prepares dinner.

This evening when the kids are in bed and after my wife has inevitably fallen asleep on the couch, I'll check out some of the stuff I've missed from Cronenberg's filmography.

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Sounds really nice :) hope you two had a great weekend